The project of building a compact activated sludge plant to decontaminate the waters of Lake Titicaca, will be sent this week to the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), today announced the provincial mayor of Puno, Luis Castillo Butrón.
Following an agreement signed with the Municipal Sanitation Company of Puno, the German development bank Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KFW) will invest a total of ten million dollars in the construction of the plant, he said.
treatment plant of wastewater discharged into the city of Puno Titicaca is built on the banks of the highest navigable lake in the world, he said.
The draft was prepared by the Management Committee for the decontamination of the Inner Bay of Lake Titicaca, an organization formed last year after a city ordinance and included more than fourteen institutions, he said.
The project would be completed in less than two years, estimated to be told Andina news agency.
"We have the land, financing and social consensus, except for a minority that is opposed. Only requires a reevaluation of the Ministry of Economy, "he said.
Butrón added that in the long term, the respective efforts made to build another treatment plant outside the bay of Puno.
